Original Comment by: Randall Fitzgerald
http://ikimashou.net
I'm really quite glad someone brought this up because, to be frank, it's been pissing me off. There is this immediate human need to fuck other humans right in the ass when we know they want something. eBay is just that same sort of carrot on a stick idea. "Oh, you want this? You want the already expensive console gaming system? Well you're going to have to try just a little bit harder." These pricks waited in line and took a perfectly good system from gamers who would use it, and still want to obviously, for a higher price, just to turn around and sell it. From the viewpoint I am in, as a gamer who didn't get a 360 (not that I want one all THAT bad), the people doing this are trash. I earnestly want something, so some asshole slides in, takes it and then dangles it in front of my face. It's like spying the last grab leg or whatever at a buffet and then some asshole who doesn't even like crab hustles over before you get there and picks it up. "Oh you wanted this? Well, I could give it to you, but it'll cost you." I mean, in this situation the son of a ***** is likely to get punched in the face, but on eBay everything just pays and goes on their way.
Profiteering is wrong when companies do it and we will all play the victim then and cry and *****, but when average Joe Retard comes along and has something we want we just consider it fair play because, well, he paid for it. Sure, ok. He paid for it, but he paid for it so he could turn trade and sell it to you for (sometimes) twice the purchase price. He doesn't want one. Do doesn't have kids. More likely, he's not even a gamer. He's just some jerk who is out for himself to make a profit and take $300 out of someone's pocket at Christmas. Money is the beginning and end of the world for far too many people. It's depressing and down right deplorable. I guess the only thing worse is the idea of gamers screwing over other gamers just to cash in on the hobby we all love.
Sure, no one with taste is very interested in the 360, but I still can't help but wonder why everyone is just ok to turn into an ass because they can make a few hundred dollars. Hell, I'm poor and the thought never crossed my mind. I mean, think about it. You took a 360 from some kid or just some other gamer, and you got $300. What are you going to do with your money? Buy a few dinners? Pay a bill or two? Oh, maybe you'll buy games or some sort of gaming device. Wouldn't that be comically ironic. Moral high ground be damned!
(This isn't meant against anyone personally, especially not Joe. I'm just sort of disappointed all around with the Xbox 360 and Microsoft and how people react in general. I know Joe's post wasn't serious, I had just had the issues in my head and not the venue to put them out.)
